Word: deweyitis
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
MARGARET TRUMAN DANIEL BETTE DAVIS OLIVIA DE HAVILLAND JACK DEMPSEY CARMINE DE SAPIO THOMAS E. DEWEY OTTO DIBELIUS C. DOUGLAS DILLON EVERETT M. DIRKSEN MICHAEL Di SALLE JOSEPH M. DODGE FREDERIC G. DONNER JAMES H. DOOLITTLE JOHN Dos PASSOS LEWIS DOUGLAS DAVID DUBINSKY ALLEN W. DULLES
...years our badly unpaid adviser on religion, the Rev. Henry Pitney Van Dusen, distinguished president of Union Theological Seminary. A brilliant, alltime-great district attorney, one of the very great governors of the state of New York, a tough fellow in a fight, and a good loser, Thomas E. Dewey. The only man who got honorary degrees from Harvard, Yale and Princeton in one week, Eugene R. Black, who made the World Bank one of the pillars of our world. Billy Phelps taught generations of Yale-men that the test of a great play was whether or not it sent...
...pragmatic movement Charles Peirce is associated with science, John Dewey with education and morals, and William James with religion. The designation, philosopher of religion, should not be taken as a testimonial to conviction, however, for James personally shunned all sects, dogmas, and revelatory creeds. "He did not really believe," remarked Santayana a trifle unfairly; "he merely believed in the right of believing that you might be right if you believed...
Among public figures: Lyndon Johnson, Dean Rusk, Adlai Stevenson, Nelson Rockefeller, Barry Goldwater, Averell Harriman, Everett Dirksen, Douglas Dillon, Arthur Goldberg, Luis Munoz Marin, Lucius Clay, Thomas E. Dewey, Henry Cabot Lodge, Norman Thomas, John J. McCloy...
...Thomas Dewey once called the Harvard Young Republican Club the West Point of Republican politics, and the club has never gotten over the flattery...